posted on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0that the assault occurred after school on Friday near the campus. The post said the \u201cyoung individuals\u201d are not believed to be Southwest students.<\/p>\n\u201cThe Fort Worth Police Department was immediately contacted, and our teacher is receiving medical care and support from our staff,\u201d the post said. \u201cBoth police and school administration are actively investigating this incident, and those responsible will be held fully accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Counselors and support staff were available for students and staff on Monday, with special attention given to members of the band.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to express how deeply sorry I am that this happened. The safety and well-being of our students and staff guide every decision we make, and we remain committed to maintaining a secure and supportive environment for everyone,\u201d Engel said. \u201cThank you for your trust and support as we come together as a school community during this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH \u2014 A high school band director in Fort Worth was assaulted by a group of young…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7362,12170,7371,7372,14242,50,5292,358,123657,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-231409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-nested-news","10":"tag-app-public-safety","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-katharine-finnerty","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-public-safety","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-topic-latest-public-safety-crime-stories","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115214136393312647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}